Re: [users] Re: generate column of sequential number in openoffice Calc

2008-12-25 Thread Jerry Feldman
and am not all that experienced with advanced techniques). -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [users] CSV question

2008-11-28 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 11/16/2008 11:35 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 16/11/2008 15:55, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 11/16/2008 10:45 AM, James Knott wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: This is kind of a stupid question, but is there a way to format a csv file so that when imported to OO.o there can be several sheets

Re: [users] Microsoft Word Compatibility

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
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Re: [users] pricelist for open office license

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
Administrator - QCG COMPUTER GMBH Neuenhofstr. 191 52078 Aachen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0241 55930-54 Fax: 0241 55930-19 -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B

[users] CSV question

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
many separate elements. What I normally do is to import the CSV and manually split it into sheets and format headings. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Re: [users] CSV question

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 11/16/2008 10:45 AM, James Knott wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: This is kind of a stupid question, but is there a way to format a csv file so that when imported to OO.o there can be several sheets and is there a way to force some formatting. AFAIK: The answer is no. The reason for asking

Re: [users] pricelist for open office license

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 11/16/2008 10:45 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 16/11/2008 15:23, Jerry Feldman wrote: $0.00 €0 On 11/05/2008 09:09 AM, Dirk Fritzen wrote: Dear all, We are a company with 120 - 150 employees. For some employees (5-10) we need to have open office portable. As Mr. Feldman wrote

Re: [users] Solveig Haugland

2008-11-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
spreadsheet is reasonably portable. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[users] Bullets and Numbering question. (write)

2008-10-04 Thread Jerry Feldman
I was just wondering how to change tjhe bullet style for individual lines. For instance, I have a list using boxes, (in a checklist), and I want to change the bullet style just for the single item. It tends to change not only the selected line, but those following. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL

Re: [users] Script conversion from spreadsheet to CSV

2008-08-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
a true comma delimited file, you could use a simple bash (using sed) or perl script to change the commas to tabs. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Re: [users] spreadsheet problem

2008-08-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
), and what version of OpenOffice. I've found that opening an Excel document that is opened by another person will come up as read-only or if the Linux permissions and ownership on the document do not give you write privilege you can get a doc in read only. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [users] How can I switch my Toshiba laptop to projector

2008-08-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
. If you are able to see the session manager you are ok, if not, check your resolution, and lower it. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Re: [users] Is this guy a moron or what

2008-08-02 Thread Jerry Feldman
him after about 300 emails. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Maintaining macro compatibility between OO.o basic and VBA

2008-07-29 Thread Jerry Feldman
will be using OO.o 2.4.1 or 3.0 but we will update to 3.0 when it is officially released. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Maintaining macro compatibility between OO.o basic and VBA

2008-07-29 Thread Jerry Feldman
, True BASIC was a product developed by Professors Kemeny and Kurtz who were the originators of BASIC in the first place. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description

Re: [users] Cannot download

2008-07-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
or a virus. You may want to contact the issuer of this installer to obtain a new copy. It may be possible to skip this check using the /NCRC command line switch (NOT RECOMMENDED) Are you downloading from http://www.openoffice.org/. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP

Re: [users] Information

2008-07-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
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[users] Maintaining macro compatibility between OO.o basic and VBA

2008-07-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
an OO.o document, I was wondering if there is a good document that compares OO.o basic to VBA. My premise at work is that the document must be available as an OO.o document because Excel does not run under Linux. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key

Re: [users] Re: Cannot use Equation Editor

2008-07-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
provide installation DVDs. But, Canonical (Ubuntu's parent company) maintains full archives of many of the products that might not be available on the CDs. And, this is also true on other Linux distros. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
HP's special templates. the only issues I currently have is in my time sheet and converting an Excel VBA macro to OO BASIC macro which is not a fault, just a difference. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2

[users] xls to ods to xls

2008-06-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
any protection that exists on an Excel spreadsheet? -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [users] Microsoft - ODF has clearly won

2008-06-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
things to their ends. The industry leader is ALWAYS the dog wagging the tail. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: How to make MS window OS to treat OO as MSO

2008-06-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
, Messiah Yeah, well religion's a big delusion anyway. It's all nonsense. The people on this list are diverse, and one's religion (or lack of) should be inappropriate for a discussion here. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key

Re: [users] Re: Calc Cell Formatting

2008-06-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
particular case, every macro I have must be compatible with Excel. There are a lot of sites out there that have examples and tutorials for Excel macros. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C

Re: [users] Another quick calc question

2008-06-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:37:13 -0500 Don Daugherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On one sheet I have a monthly column of numbers where only the end of the year is populated (for 50 years), as an example A B 7/31/2007 0 8/31/2007

Re: [users] 64-bit OOo builds [was: How can I edit PDF]

2008-06-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html Speaking of 64-bit builds, I still have not been able to locate a build for the IA64. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc

[users] Another quick calc question

2008-06-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
the end of year numbers. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] http://www.saveXP.org/ [WAS: Wrong OS or OS Version]

2008-06-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
have never shipped with a Microsoft operating system. This is true, and all of the recent Macs run OSX which is a BSD Unix variant. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Re: [users] Re: http://www.saveXP.org/ [WAS: Wrong OS or OS Version]

2008-06-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
, unfortunately, many chipmakers ignore Linux when they create their drivers requiring the Linux community to catch up. Usually this can take about 6 months, -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607

Re: [users] Re: Re: http://www.saveXP.org/ [WAS: Wrong OS or OS Version]

2008-06-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
pages for NDISWrapper do not even mention this option. This may be why you were not able to install the driver. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [users] Re: http://www.saveXP.org/ [WAS: Wrong OS or OS Version]

2008-06-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
Expertise Centers. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] http://www.saveXP.org/ [WAS: Wrong OS or OS Version]

2008-06-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
under WINE: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=168711 Also IBM's ViaVoice is available on Linux, but it is relatively old. There is a petition to get Nuance to port Dragon Naturally Speaking to Linux. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key

[users] Good tutorial on macros (either OO.o or the other one).

2008-06-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
a very useful site, http://www.angelfire.com/biz7/julian_s/julian/julians_macros.htm, but I probably will have a need to learn VBA scripting with my company's product. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB

[users] Calc: Find lower of 2 numbers.

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry Feldman
I need a function to find the lowest of a fixed value and a cell. SMALL(range;n) is not what I need. something like =if(150 = $a$1;150;$a$1) I could use this, but I'm looking for something cleaner. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key

Re: [users] Re: Calc: Find lower of 2 numbers.

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:54:15 -0400 Jim Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: I need a function to find the lowest of a fixed value and a cell. SMALL(range;n) is not what I need. something like =if(150 = $a$1;150;$a$1) I could use this, but I'm looking for something

Re: [users] Help please with scalc / data sort

2008-06-08 Thread Jerry Feldman
then the next column is sorted. The value in YO is 2, and that goes higher than QO. There is no further ambiguity, so sorting does not proceed to colN at all. In this example, calc did the correct thing. (As would the Linux sort(1) command). -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix

Re: [users] Probably another stupid calc question

2008-06-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
, but also in terms of style. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[users] Probably another stupid calc question

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
of columns I need to replicate as well as a number of different sums. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Probably another stupid calc question

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:39:03 -0400 Anthony Chilco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jerry, If you insert rows or cells from 200 down to 300, the formula will change to reflect the new position of A200. tc Jerry Feldman wrote: If I have a column of numbers, say A1 to A200 and a =SUM(A1:A200

Re: [users] Probably another stupid calc question

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:23:40 +0100 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:00 06/06/2008 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: ... but what if I want to add 400 rows, In the real spreadsheet I have I need to extend the sheet by 400 rows. Insert rows or cells would require a lot of work

Re: [users] questions concerning openoffice 2.4

2008-06-04 Thread Jerry Feldman
certainly have used OpenOffice as we actually did in a subsequent project which was started (if I recall) after 2.0 came out. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc

Re: [users] general imput/output error

2008-06-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
documents. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: Sending files to those not using OpenOffice

2008-05-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
. The downside could be that they could try to subvert ODF. But, being an optimist, I don't think OOXML is important enough for Microsoft to push through, especially with many countries unhappy about the OOXML issues. It comes under if you can't beat them, join them. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL

[users] Calc and hiding/showing/resizing columns screen not refreshing

2008-05-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
thing occurs on the same sheet with the Windows version. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this, and if so, is it better on 3.0 beta? -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C

Re: [users] Links to other files in calc (solved)

2008-05-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 27 May 2008 10:32:37 -0400 Anthony Chilco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2008 08:48:58 -0400 Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a spreadsheet that has about 10 sheets. When starting up it reports that it has links to other files

Re: [users] problem regarding of opening the excel file

2008-05-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
, or you are trying to read it from a share. What version of Open Office also. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Incrementing Calc cell value with 'button'

2008-05-25 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sun, 25 May 2008 09:03:33 +0300 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/24 Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here is a macro that I hard coded to increment a value in cell D2. I must admit that I found something similar online, but I need to start to learn OO.o macro languages

Re: [users] ODF incompatible variants, was: Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-25 Thread Jerry Feldman
, standards do tend to lag technology. (I used to make a living converting Burroughs COBOL to IBM COBOL :-) -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [users] Incrementing Calc cell value with 'button'

2008-05-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
to increment a value in cell D2. I must admit that I found something similar online, but I need to start to learn OO.o macro languages in the next few weeks. Sub Incd2() mynum = Range(d2) + 1 Range(d2) = mynum End Sub -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key

Re: [users] ODF incompatible variants, was: Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sat, 24 May 2008 07:29:46 -0700 Ganesha Bhaskara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If SUN, IBM etc., starts behaving like MSFT, Actually, MSFT is behaving like IBM did 30 or 40 years ago. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377

Re: [users] Posts from Michelle Konzack

2008-05-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
port, but I think that Dotan did post a very relevant statement. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[users] Calc question on how to automatically extend a sheet

2008-05-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
in A1. But, I'm just looking for some ideas. I'm good at C++ code, but a novice on spreadsheets even though I bought my first Visicalc directly from Dan Bricklin. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B

[users] Re: Calc question on how to automatically extend a sheet

2008-05-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 23 May 2008 09:43:43 -0400 Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a spreadsheet whose depth depends on an actuarial table. So, for an example I have a sheet that extends for 10 years, with each row representing a month: Row Dateperiod time 115/23/2008 1

Re: [users] Incrementing Calc cell value with 'button'

2008-05-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
want, how about in tools/customize, create a button in the toolbar, and tie it to a macro. Or, write a macro with a button in a cell. As I mentioned previously, I am a relatively inexperienced spreadsheet person, but I think you can get something doe very nicely. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [users] Incrementing Calc cell value with 'button'

2008-05-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 23 May 2008 17:09:08 +0300 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/23 Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 23 May 2008 11:28:12 +0300 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a calc sheet with a cell who's natural-number content must be incremented ++1 several times

Re: [users] Re: Posts from Michelle Konzack

2008-05-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
because it fully complies with the relevant Internet standards. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Posts from Michelle Konzack

2008-05-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
with the signature set up as an attachment. If you check my previous messages, if they show up that way, that would be the case. You can install an addition to Outlook that will allow you to handle digitally signed message. This message is not digitally signed. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston

Re: [users] Posts from Michelle Konzack

2008-05-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
gpg4win on my company provided laptop. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-05-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
to say on this, but no time, just a few thoughts. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: [OT] US Coins - was Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-12 Thread Jerry Feldman
currency battle goes back hundreds of years. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sun, 11 May 2008 02:47:52 -0700 Bob Estes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John W Kennedy wrote: On May 10, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Bob Estes wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:48 -0400 John W Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
money was issued by the Bank of the United States and some states and even corporations. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 06 May 2008 17:15:04 -0400 James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Tue, 06 May 2008 15:53:43 -0400 James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not quite. It's only 10. There's 8 data bits, one start and one stop bit. Perhaps you're thinking of the old 5

Re: [users] Saving .xls to .csv with full precision for numbers

2008-05-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 06 May 2008 10:56:40 -0400 Rick Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The number 71.08929399 is what is actually in the .xls spreadsheet Actually, that is not exactly true. The number in the physical cell is a binary 64-bit floating point number. I think James answered your question about

[users] Strange behavior in calc.

2008-05-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
it back. It is very simply to fix. I'll try to reduce the size of the spreadsheet (contains 17 sheets) and issue a bugzilla later on. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:43:43 -0400 James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should read It doesn't change anything on the receiver... Agreed. It only really means something to the modems themselves. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:48 -0400 John W Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in 1/8ths of a dollar until just a few years ago. Let's bring back pieces of 8 :-) -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id

Re: [users] Strange behavior in calc.

2008-05-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wed, 7 May 2008 15:46:27 -0400 Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an excel spreadsheet I am encountering a strange error where I have a correct formula in a cell, in this case L190 contains: =difdate($F$4;$K190;y)+1 and yields Err:522, yet all other cells between L11 and L201

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:34:48 -0400 James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:43:43 -0400 James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should read It doesn't change anything on the receiver... Agreed. It only really means something

[users] dumb RTFM question regarding hyperlinks

2008-05-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
, but it does not describe how to convert a number of cells into hyperlinks. Certainly, I can edit each cell individually and use the hyperlink dialog. What I want to do is to select a number of cells containing email addresses and be able to turn the hyperlink on or off on all of those cells. -- -- Jerry

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
. And a Nybble is 4 bits. And, at least among chip makers' assemblers, a word is 16 bits, a longword is 32-bits and a quadword is 64-bits. But, in asynchronous serial data communications (eg. modem) it takes 10.5 bits to send a byte :-) -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
cable modem that usually measures about 4 to 6Mbps. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] RE: Uncompressing a Tar.gz

2008-05-05 Thread Jerry Feldman
and log files are gzip'd. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] RE: Uncompressing a Tar.gz

2008-05-05 Thread Jerry Feldman
, Windows users had to use a command line utility to zip and unzip compressed archives. And, both Fedora and SuSE (and Ubuntu) can run a KDE, GNOME, or alternative desktop. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB

Re: [users] 64bit builds

2008-05-03 Thread Jerry Feldman
snapshot build... No word in the release if this will include both RPM and DEB file formats? Anyone know when or if OO.o will be released for the IA64. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607

Re: [users] 64bit builds

2008-05-03 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sat, 03 May 2008 07:56:19 -0400 Fred A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Fri, 02 May 2008 21:13:20 -0400 Drew Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From an announcement on the GULLFoss blog today http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/openoffice_org_builds_for_linux

Re: [users] License for OpenOffice

2008-04-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
? Instead of Microsoft Office... It's license is GPL meaning that even for commercial use on Windows it is free. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [users] Download Failure

2008-04-28 Thread Jerry Feldman
? Open Office is FREE. www.openoffice.org -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[users] Macro Security / Interoperability

2008-04-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
, but I had to set security to low. I didn't see if there was a way in Excel to properly sign a macro to where I could use it on OO.o without reducing security. In this particular case it does not matter. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key

Re: [users] Re: DateDif function. SOLVED

2008-04-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
convert this to a macro that can be used in both Excel and OO.o, it may be better than using =int(yearfrac()). -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [users] Re: DateDif function. SOLVED

2008-04-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:40:02 -0700 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/22/2008 11:32 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:39:06 +0100 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand your needs correctly, try (in Calc): =INT(YEARFRAC($A$1;$B1;1)) The YEARFRAC

Re: [users] OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor anda text editing component

2008-04-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
allows you to view mail on the server although I have not used either POP3 or IMAP since I use fetchmail to grab my email on Linux, so claws is only local. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-04-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
. At the time I moved my email to Linux, I was dual booting, and I wrote a C program to convert the Pegasus mail format files (at that time Pegasus used its own format) to mh (mh uses a directory structure as folders with 1 message per file). -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix

Re: [users] DateDif function.

2008-04-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:58:28 +0100 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 13:08 21/04/2008 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: I routinely take Excel spreadsheets and convert them to Calc. The spreadsheets are functional specifications for a product I am working on. The problem

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-04-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:06:55 +0100 mike scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Apr 2008 at 8:51, Jerry Feldman wrote: ... A number of years ago (probably about 10) I exchanged some email with David Harris on this. When I moved from Windows to Linux as my primary desktop platform, I used

Re: [users] DateDif function. SOLVED

2008-04-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
Excel and Calc. I had asked this question in a few different listservs, possibly even this one. And, 2 of my coworkers are PHD/Actuaries. Not one other person mentioned yearfrac(). Now comes the hard part, getting my coworker to replace the datedif formulae with yearfrac. -- -- Jerry Feldman

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
, such as Pegasus, Thunderbird, Eudora, Evolution, claws, etc. I would much rather have the OO.o team focus on the major office components than to dilute their resources on another project. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B

[users] DateDif function.

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
in the company only use Excel so we do need to maintain the document in MS .xls format. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Undeletable message

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
Microsoft Windows Mail (looks like on Vista). I looked at the header of the message I received from Mark and everything looked clean. He is using Thunderbird on Windows. -- -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B

Re: [users] generating csv files.

2007-09-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
editing the resultant file. Again, not an OO.o problem since Excel does the same. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] generating csv files.

2007-09-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:15:58 +0100 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:34 12/09/2007 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: While generating a CSV, Calc generates some quotes where (I believe) Excel does not. A short example is this is part of the input file, in this case a csv: Input CSV

Re: [users] Groklaw - The results of the ISO voting: Office Open XML is Disapproved

2007-09-12 Thread Jerry Feldman
a home-grown one that would cost about $3000 per store ($2000 savings * 1000 stores). And at the time, we got wonderful support from IBM. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00

Re: [users] Groklaw - The results of the ISO voting: Office Open XML is Disapproved

2007-09-12 Thread Jerry Feldman
a home-grown one that would cost about $3000 per store ($2000 savings * 1000 stores). And at the time, we got wonderful support from IBM. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00

[users] generating csv files.

2007-09-12 Thread Jerry Feldman
not like the quotes. But, the resultant file does require some editing because neither Excel nor Calc generates the dates in the needed format: /mm/dd. Swedish comes close with -mm-dd, but again the tool likes the forward slashes. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user

Re: [users] Converting files

2007-09-12 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:46:05 -0500 Perrin, Scott R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I'm using Office Open on Linux and Mac, is it easy to convert them into other formats like PDF .Doc? Yes. You can export to PDF or save as in Microsoft formats. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston

Re: [users] Groklaw - The results of the ISO voting: Office Open XML is Disapproved

2007-09-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
as a result of the recent issues in Europe. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Groklaw - The results of the ISO voting: Office Open XML is Disapproved

2007-09-04 Thread Jerry Feldman
Standard. In MS Word, .docx files are OOXML. Note that Groklaw is a web site that tends to focus on legal issues around OpenSource. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00

Re: [users] Fonts

2007-09-02 Thread Jerry Feldman
/Optimal_Use_of_MS_TrueType_Core_Fonts_for_a_KDE_Desktop_on_SuSE -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [users] Fonts

2007-09-02 Thread Jerry Feldman
media. The MSFT fonts should have been on them. It is better in Linux to use the RPMs available for your distro. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

Re: [users] latest Downloaded version currupt?

2007-08-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
with your ISP. I suggest you restart the download and try to monitor it. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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